Protection Of Business Method Patent And Our Country's Reaction

Protection of Business Method patent is a inside request of the modern high and new technology development.In our country, business method has already been given patent right, but there are different opinions whether business method should be brought into the scope of patent protection or not. Therefore ,it's necessary to carry on a research on business method patentfor changing old comprehension on"business method",and flexibly applying a patent policy to promote the development of our country's electronic commerce.The textual research purpose lies in comparing different countries' theory and practice in protection of business method patent,such as the United States, EU, Japanese etc..The text made a discussion on the necessity and possibility of the protection of business method patent.In first paragraph, a few basic problems of the bussiness method patent are disscussed;In second paragraph,different countries' theory and practice in protection of business method patent and development tend are mentioned;In third paragraph,substantial conditions of business method patent are discussed;In last paragraph,the author commented on our countries' different opinions on protection of business method patent and emphasised on the necessity and possibility of patent protection,and gave his opinions and advices on the present status and future development of the protection of business method patent.